Remember playing Warcraft 2? In the very beginning of an online match you started with one peon, who had to build the farm to make it possible for you to build more peons. Sometimes, when the game speed was set high, it was almost impossible to stop that peon from mining that gold. He'd mine for a second, pop up, zoom from the mine to the town hall then be back underground before I could select him and push the button.
That was some bullshit.